Reconstruction of Regional Agriculture and Farm Land Resources Management in Less-Favoured Areas

本研究旨在探讨WTO农业协议下日本地方农业区的稻田农业改造和农地资源管理的有关措施。（1）分析了新法案下的大米降价将给日本地方行政区的稻田耕作和土地资源管理带来的新困难，（2）上述农业重建的理论基础;（3）重新审视现有稻田农场作为培育支柱的意义和局限性，其第一种类型是大规模的个体佃农，第二种类型是与区域农业相关的群体农业，（4）调查公私伙伴关系，以补充对现有两类私人农场的上述限制，（5）研究扶持以稻田农业为主导的区域农业和改造农村土地资源管理体制的战略措施。

The purpose of this research project is to discuss the measures concerned wit-h reconstruction of paddy-field farming and farm land resources management in the Japanese LFAs under the Agreement on Agriculture in WTO.In this research project the investigator had made clear the following five m-am subjects : l)the analysis of new hardships which a lower price of rice under the new act will bring to paddy-field farming and land resources management in the Japanese LFAs, 2)the rationale of the reconstruction of the above-mentioned farming, 3)the re-examination of meaning and limitations regarding existing paddy-field farms as fostering pillars whose first type is large-scale individual tenant farms, and second type is group farming in reference to regional agriculture, 4)the investigation into a private-public partnership to complement the above-mentioned limitations on two types of existing private farms, 5) the examination of strategic measures to support regional agriculture of which leading part is paddy-field farming and to reconstruct farm land resources management system instead of the old system by aging farm households.